This book is about Giberson's views on glass technology. It is a collection of designs, essays, and glassmaking ideas which focus on the underlying philosophy of hot glass. It is a document that will be of interest to anyone who works with glass whether he/she is a glassblower, a pate de verre caster, or a modern beadmaker‒ even someone who simply collects and loves glass. Archaeologists will be especially interested in the ancient glass explanations, as Giberson focuses on simple ideas that actually work. Dudley Giberson is one of the early pioneers of the Studio Glass Movement whose professional involvement dates from 1968 when he began his glassblowing career making art vases. In the mid-1970s he began making beads with an ancient drawn tube method. Giberson is both an inquisitive inventor and designer, mostly self-taught, who has made many contributions to the current technology of the Studio Glass Movement. His unique patented burner is used in many studios. He is an accomplished equipment builder and blacksmith. All of these skills are revealed in this multi-layered treatise.
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This well researched, painstakingly documented book provides detailed information on the right-wing evangelical organization (Oxford Group Movement) that gave birth to AA; the relation of AA and its program to the Oxford Group Movement; AA's similarities to and differences from religious cults; AA's remarkable ineffectiveness; and the alternatives to AA. The greatly expanded second edition includes a new chapter on AA's relationship to the treatment industry, and AA's remarkble influence in the media.
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The first book to gather information on how to make high quality kief and hash from throw-away byproduct. It also includes alternatives to smoking such as specialty tinctures and cooking, as well as reviews of the latest vaporizer models. Written with both the knowledge and easy-to-understand style you expect from Ed Rosenthal, America's guru of ganja, the book offers important information that no other book covers. Includes color and b&w photos of the hash-making process and other techniques.
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Ask Ed teams up with attorney William Logan to provide both legal know-how and useful strategies aimed at reducing the chances of getting busted. This book presents legal concepts in easy-to-understand language, interspersed with actual stories and reader-submitted questions that give real life context to the law. For the hundreds of thousands of casual marijuana users in the U.S. today, this book fills a gap by giving much-needed advice on how to stay free by knowing your rights. 180 pages
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The last two decades have seen a broad expansion of the ayahuasca religions, and it has also witnessed, especially since the millennium, an explosion of studies into the spiritual uses of ayahuasca. Ayahuasca Religions grew out of the need for an ordering of the profusion of titles related to this subject that are now appearing. This publication offers a map of the global production of literature on this theme. Three researchers located in different cities (Beatriz Caiuby Labate in São Paulo, Rafael Guimarães dos Santos in Barcelona, and Isabel Santana de Rose in Florianópolis, Brazil) worked in a virtual research group for a year to compile a list of bibliographical references on Santo Daime, Barquinha, UDV and urban ayahuasqueiros, including the specialized academic literature as well as esoteric and experiential writings produced by participants of these churches. Ayahuasca Religions presents the results of that collaboration. Ayahuasca Religions includes two essays commenting on aspects of the bibliography. The first presents a profile of these religious groups, including their history and expansion, and a general assessment of the principal characteristics, tendencies, and perspectives evident in the literature about them. The second essay summarizes the most important studies of human subjects in the context of Santo Daime, União do Vegetal and Barquinha, evaluating their results, contributions, and limitations. The essay also offers some preliminary anthropological reflections on biomedical research of ayahuasca.
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Ayahuasca: The Visionary and Healing Powers of the Vine of the Soul is an autobiographical account of the author s work with ayahuasca, a potent and sacred plant brew of the Amazon region that is known for its extraordinary visionary and healing powers. As she learned from her experience, with the help of ayahuasca we are able to grasp our paradoxical nature, the first step to acceptance of ourselves in both our glorious and dark aspects. Ayahuasca teaches us how to release the illusions we hold about ourselves and makes it possible to integrate our many diverse aspects to acquire our true power. This book reveals the ritual protocols that must be followed prior to partaking of ayahuasca, including the traditional preparatory diet--which requires enduring austere conditions, isolation, and only small amounts of bland food before receiving the powers of the plant spirit from an ayahuasquero, a healing master--and the sacred songs, icaros, that are sung when imbibing the substance. Although the use of ayahuasca is growing among underground spiritual seekers and through the burgeoning ayahuasca tourism trade in South America, few of its seekers understand how it is used traditionally and the importance of the rituals the indigenous people follow. With this book, the author hopes to restore the importance of these indigenous practices so that we may truly understand all the gifts of ayahuasca.
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Consciousness researcher Zoe Seven returns in Back From The Void engaged in new experiments, which lead him once again into uncharted territories of the psyche. This time, he combines the shamanic Amazonian brew ayahuasca and the psychoactive diviner s sage Salvia divinorum together with hemispheric synchronization of the brain via mind machines. This alchemical fusion brings about a never-before-experienced altered state of consciousness he coins the Zenith7 state. While engaged in it, Seven discovers that he has been unwittingly guided by these ancient plant entities to combine them something never before attempted as these plants needed to psycho-energetically mate inside the mind of a human. Find out for what purpose, and learn how Nature is in the process of helping create a critical mass within the human species via symbiosis with plants, as humanity begins to acknowledge the mass hypnotic hallucination called waking reality and readies itself for the coming evolutionary leap of consciousness into a new realm of existence. Back From The Void depicts the mind and experiments of a new explorer of the psyche, Zoe Seven. In a style reminiscent of pioneering scientist Dr. John C. Lilly s autobiography Center of the Cyclone, or Ken Russell s film Altered States, Back From The Void is a must read for professional and amateur psychonauts alike.
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This book is a pioneering look at the substances that have been discovered to have a positive effect on the performance of the human brain. Brain Boosters begins by describing how the brain works and the factors influencing mental performance. It then goes on to discuss the evolution and growing use of nutrients and pharmaceuticals to improve brain function. Photos and line drawings.
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Open City editor Pinchbeck's book debut is a polemic that picks up the threads that Huxley's The Doors of Perception, Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters and counterculture idealism left in the culture. Charting his gradual transformation from a cynical New York litterateur to psychedelic acolyte, Pinchbeck uses elements of travelogue, memoir, entheobotany (the study of god-containing plants) and historical research to ask why these doorways of the mind have been unceremoniously sealed, sharing Walter Benjamin's melancholy about the exasperating nature of consumerism: We live in a culture where everything tastes good but nothing satisfies. Pinchbeck travels the earth in search of spiritual awakening through tripping, from Gabon to the Nevada desert. At happenings like the Burning Man festival or a plant conference in the Ecuadorean jungle, Pinchbeck meets modern shamans and tells their stories as they intersect with his. In his reporting, he manages to walk a difficult tonal tightrope, balancing his skepticism with a desire to be transformed. He thoughtfully surveys the literature about psychedelic drugs, but the most exhilarating and illuminating sections are the descriptions of drug taking: he calls this visiting the spirit world, which is like a cosmic bureaucracy employing its own PR department, its own off-kilter sense of dream-logic and humor...constantly playing with human limitations, dangling possibilities before our puny grasps at knowledge. There's little new drug lore here, but Pinchbeck's earnest, engaged and winning manner carry the book.
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The first book ever to feature detailed directions for bongs, pipes, hookahs, and more, Build This Bong brings both the classics and entirely original showstoppers to the home workshop. Projects of all sorts--from a standard gravity bong to a rubber ducky hookah and a state of the art vaporizer--come to life with Popular Mechanics-inspired illustrations and simple instructions. No fancy materials necessary: handyman, illustrator, bookbinder, and metalsmith Randy Stratton shows how to construct everything from common household goods. Build This Bong's 40 inventive projects--made from melons, coconuts, snow-globes, teapots, and more--are sure to be a big, mind-blowing hit. Lots of illustrations (two-color).
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Cannabis Alchemy is a cult classic. This edition has been updated and revised. Cannabis Alchemy reveals the world of marijuana and hashish. Gold accompanies the alchemist as he uncovers the secrets of enhancing potency.
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Seeking to identify the plant origins of the early sacramental beverages Soma and Haoma, this study draws a connection between the psychoactive properties of these drinks and the widespread use of cannabis among Indo-Europeans during this time. Exploring the role of these libations as inspiration for the Indian Rig Veda and the Persian Avestan texts, this examination discusses the spread of cannabis use across Europe and Asia, the origins of the Soma and Haoma cults, and the shamanic origins of modern religion. Chris Bennett is an expert in the use of ethnobotanicals. He has contributed articles to numerous magazines, includingCannabis Culture and High Times, and he is the author of several books, including Green Gold the Tree of Life: Marijuana in Magic and Religion and Sex, Drugs, Violence and the Bible.He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.
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The Cannabis Grow Bible fully explains both the art and science behind growing high-grade pot. Author and aficionado Greg Green blends a thorough understanding of marijuana botany with practical advice on coping with the day-to-day demands of maintaining a high-yield garden, and offers proven methods that maximize both yield and potency. Fully updated and illustrated in full color, and with techniques for both indoor and outdoor cultivation, this comprehensive guide covers everything growers need to know, including how to select the best plant genetics, soil and hydroponic grows, dealing with pests and predators, advanced systems and breeding, and protecting the crop from nosy neighbors. It also explains the Screen of Green technique that gives a higher yield using fewer plants. Green's easy-to-follow instructions and the accuracy, breadth, and depth of information presented benefit newbies and professional gardeners alike.
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This book describes in step-by-step detail how to set up and run a clandestine drug laboratory -- without getting caught. Motivated by a heart-felt desire to dispel the abysmal ignorance of the American people regarding drugs, the author reveals every aspect of running an illegal drug manufacturing lab. Jack B. Nimble reveals how to select a location for a clandestine drug laboratory, how to cover your tracks, safety precautions, and when and how to shut down your operation to keep out of the slammer. The author also discusses how to manufacture your own glassware and other laboratory equipment from everyday items. Also covered are tablets, capsules, and other packaging methods for illegal drugs.
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Diary of a Drug Fiend was Aleister Crowley's first published novel. To the reader of 1922 it presented a shocking look at a little know phenomenon. Today, while we are more familiar with drugs because of their widespread use in our culture, Diary of a Drug Fiend remains one of the most intense, detailed and accurate accounts of drug addiction and the drug experience.
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This special DVD of “Ecstasy Rising” is perhaps the best documentary ever made about MDMA. This Peter Jennings special originally aired in 2004 on a special edition of ABC’s “Primetime Thursday” in which Jennings tells the previously untold story of Ecstasy. The compilation includes special interviews with MAPS Founder and Executive Director Rick Doblin as well as with Pharmacologist and Chemist Alexander “Sasha” Shulgin -- the godfather of Ecstasy.
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The world's leading experts on Ecstasy assess its therapeutic potential, social implications, and the dangers of unsupervised use. Includes chapters by Andrew Weil, Ralph Metzner, Douglas Rushkoff, Rabbi Zalman Schachter, Rick Doblin, and others. An ideal guide for parents and educators seeking a credible source of information. Use of the drug Ecstasy, once confined to the teen rave scene and college campuses, is exploding across America, from high schools to upscale clubs. Described by users as the most intense euphoria they know and by detractors as a cause of brain damage and even death, Ecstasy has generated unprecedented levels of interest-and misinformation. Written by the world's leading experts on MDMA, Ecstasy: The Complete Guide takes the first unbiased look at the risks and the benefits of this unique drug, including the science of how it works; its promise as a treatment for depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, chronic pain, and other illnesses; and how to minimize the risk of illicit use. Whether you are a raver, a concerned parent, or a professional wanting the most recent reports on MDMA research, Ecstasy: The Complete Guide provides the answers you need.
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Ecstasy (MDMA) is the first of a new generation of mind-changing substances that is reported to transform personal relationships and boost self-esteem. Its effects have been described as opening people up to their intuition and feelings, leading to an expanded sense of self-awareness and empathy for others. After a decade of use by psychotherapists, MDMAsurged into public awareness and has been used by millions, prompting Newsweek to call it the drug of choice of . . . the New Age movement. Ecstasy: The MDMA Story chronicles MDMA, including the flip-flops in its legal status, psychological effects, erotic implications, methods of use, possible future, health risks, chemical structure and analogues, and a detailed description of the chemical synthesis of MDMA by renowned pharmacologist Dr. Alexander T. Shulgin. This expanded second edition includes updates on the opening of government-sanctioned MDMA research in the USA, the latest information on health risks, and the rave scene in England and the USA.
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17.95 USD

TEMPORARILY OUT OF STOCK An important book for anyone who cares about the future of the human race. --Charles C. Tart, Professor Emeritus, University of California This book provides a balanced, thoroughly researched and clear account about a topic that has fascinated people for centuries...--Harvey Cox, Professor of Divinity, Harvard University Product Description Exciting book on the spiritual benefits of the entheogens, especially to our society. Essays by Albert Hofmann, R. Gordon Wasson, the Shulgins, Terence McKenna, Dale Pendell, Jack Kornfield, Tom Roberts, Rick Strassman, others. Huston Smith says it is the best single inquiry into the religious significance of chemically occasioned mystical experiences.
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